Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

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Chapter exploring the familial gaze in Boltanski’s Nazi family photo albums

Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Feast of the Goat. - 2002

Historical novel about the dictatorship and assassination of Rafael Trujillo.

Verhoeven, Michael, dir. The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) - 1990

Fictionalised depiction of Anna Rosmus’ research into her town’s Nazi past

Vermes, Timur. Look Who’s Back - 2014

Fictional, humorous German novel written from Hitler's perspective

von Trotta, Margarethe, dir. Hannah Arendt - 2012

A film on Hannah Arendt, focusing on her report on the Eichmann trials

Vonnegut, Kurt. “Mother Night” - 1962

Novel about the pre-trial confessions of a Nazi propaganda writer in 1961.

Waititi, Taika, dir. Jojo Rabbit - 2019

Comedy depicting 10-year-old Hitler Youth member with imaginary Hitler as friend

Waller, James E. “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: the Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing” - 2008

Waller offers a psychological explanation why ordinary people kill.

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw/Pountney, David. The Passenger - 2010

An opera about the Holocaust

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German social psychologists on the communication of memory within families